Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
A standing man and a drapery study
c.1853-76Albumen print | RCIN 852510
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.Pp,1.74r). The study is for one of the figures on the extreme right of an early (and now lost) design for the fresco of Parnassus, the composition of which is documented by a copy in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.272; a photograph at RCIN 852475).
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)